Commentary: Let’s Talk About Woodstock the Water Shuttle V2.0 [Video]

Woodstock, the free water shuttle between Oakland’s Jack London Square and Western Alameda, has been running for less than a month but is already an unqualified success. “In our first 29 days of service we had 17,534 total riders and 3,611 bicycles. We are analyzing the ridership and operational data now, which will be used to develop a revised schedule with increased frequency,” wrote Sarah Henry, a spokesperson for the city of Alameda, which created the service.

“We hope to implement this new schedule later in the fall,” added Henry. “And, given the early success of the service, we are already having discussions on how we might continue and expand the service beyond the two-year pilot.”

One of the flaws with the current service is that there was only sufficient funding to run it five days a week. There are also huge gaps (the largest one is two hours and …